Week eight post

Continuing on flash fiction, this week’s readings helped to solidify the terms and definitions associated with writing and reading fictional short stories. One of the focuses this week was point of view. In class, we manipulated the same story three times; altering the point-of-view. This presented quite the challenge for me. At first, writing a story was fairly simple, keeping within the first-person point-of-view. However, when we had to change to third-person and then to the first-person of the opposite character, I found it a bit more demanding. Although it took a bit longer, writing in the third-person allowed me to really describe the characterization and setting without feeling like I was listing details like in the first-person example.

These last few weeks of flash fiction have been a bit difficult and enjoyable at the same time. In the previous sections of the class, imitating the poem posed a bit less originality. I mean, writing within the structure of a premiere artist is exciting and slightly easier than originating every aspect of the piece like we are now in flash fiction. Although I find it a bit more challenging, I really enjoy the whole process.

Doing this weeks assignment that included a 250-word essay on our favorite flash fictional piece was very beneficial for me. Dissecting the story having focused on fictional terms and definition really helped to solidify my understanding of how each component exist within flash fiction and is used to generate an exciting flash fiction story that not only flows, but also grips the reader without listing an overabundant amount of descriptors: like the “weather-forecast” mentioned this week.